SOUP ROOMS: Sodium
An atmospheric exploration room created for SOUP ROOMS ↗ (2025), a virtual gallery system directed by Akuma Kira & Kite Line. SOUP is a rigid creative format lifted from a 2007 artware game; its many subsequent releases now exhibit 300+ rooms, suggesting how set technical constraints can scale participation and reward ingenuity. Contributors define their cube-shaped "rooms" from a fixed set of images and sounds. SOUP-making has been used as a charrette exercise in game design studios, where it can teach the fundamentals of game assets, collaborative work, and creative economy. My contribution, Sodium, places the player in a sodium-lit parking lot on a midsummer night, pairing a soundscape of cicadas and a distant storm with spherical projection mapping to evoke warm light and deep shadow.
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